AP: Palin pipeline terms curbed bids

[In-A-Gadda-Levitre]

An Associated Press investigation has found what it called a flawed bidding procedure in the Alaskan gas pipeline project.

 

I have to agree that allowing the companies that own the rights to the gas might have too big of an advantage if they build the pipeline also, but the improprieties that are alleged here do not bode well for Mrs. Palin's rep...

 

Despite Palin's boast of a smart and fair bidding process, the AP found that her team crafted terms that favored only a few independent pipeline companies and ultimately benefited the winner, TransCanada Corp.

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_Despite promises and legal guidance not to talk directly with potential bidders, Palin had meetings or phone calls with nearly every major candidate, including TransCanada.

 

_The leader of Palin's pipeline team had been a partner at a lobbying firm where she worked on behalf of a TransCanada subsidiary. Also, that woman's former business partner at the lobbying firm was TransCanada's lead private lobbyist on the pipeline deal, interacting with legislators in the weeks before the vote to grant TransCanada the contract. Plus, a former TransCanada executive served as an outside consultant to Palin's pipeline team.

[Kelly the Dog]

Hole. Meet shovel.

 

Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue." A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to "bust free" of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged roll-out.

 

McCain sources say Palin has gone off message several times, and they privately wonder if the incidents were deliberate. They cited that she labeled robocalls -- recorded messages often used to attack a candidate's opponent -- "irritating" even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.

 

A second McCain source tells CNN she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.

 

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

 

"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."

 

A Palin associate defended her by saying she is "not good at process questions" and that her comments on Michigan and the robocalls were answers to process questions.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/pal...sion/index.html

[drnykterstein]

So, Palin is not trying to win this election, she is trying to set herself up to be the leader of the Republican party? And maybe .. like a president or something?

[Kelly the Dog]

So, Palin is not trying to win this election, she is trying to set herself up to be the leader of the Republican party? And maybe .. like a president or something?

If they want a mental midget leading the party I think that's awesome. That could lock this thing up for the democrats 'til 2024. By then us commies will have taken over the whole country, and all the states could be red.

[drnykterstein]

A real red too. None of this sissy "conservative" red.

[Kelly the Dog]

A real red too. None of this sissy "conservative" red.

Exactly. And we could have the Crescent Stars 'n Stripes.

[Albany,n.y.]

So, Palin is not trying to win this election, she is trying to set herself up to be the leader of the Republican party? And maybe .. like a president or something?

Dan Quayle had delusions of grandeur too, he got his @ss kicked in the primaries. Sarah Palin will suffer the same slap in the face by reality if she really thinks she can ever be the Presidential nominee.